Correction, calling it from spyder(a working spyder) doesn't crash.
 Calling this function from python/ipython does cause a crash

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Matt Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:

> However, importing the windows_memory_usage function and calling it
> doesn't crash...mine returns 73
>
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Jed Ludlow <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Matt Anderson <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Jed wins the prize,
>>>
>>> It looks like this function may not be any good on 64 bit systems (in
>>> utils\system.py)
>>>
>>> def windows_memory_usage():
>>>     """Return physical memory usage (float)
>>>     Works on Windows platforms only"""
>>>     from ctypes import windll
>>>     from ctypes.wintypes import byref, Structure, DWORD
>>>     class MemoryStatus(Structure):
>>>         _fields_ = [('dwLength', DWORD), ('dwMemoryLoad', DWORD),
>>>                     ('dwTotalPhys', DWORD), ('dwAvailPhys', DWORD),
>>>                     ('dwTotalPageFile', DWORD), ('dwAvailPageFile',
>>> DWORD),
>>>                     ('dwTotalVirtual', DWORD), ('dwAvailVirtual',
>>> DWORD),]
>>>     memorystatus = MemoryStatus()
>>>     windll.kernel32.GlobalMemoryStatus(byref(memorystatus))
>>>     return float(memorystatus.dwMemoryLoad)
>>>
>>>
>> Yes, running system.py as a script produces the same interpreter crash.
>> Some days ctypes is your friend. Some days it isn't :).
>>
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